Dou·ble, v. i.
1. To be increased to twice the sum, number, quantity, length, or value; to increase or grow to twice as much.
'T is observed in particular nations, that within the space of three hundred years, notwithstanding all casualties, the number of men doubles. --T. Burnet.
2. To return upon one's track; to turn and go back over the same ground, or in an opposite direction.
Doubling and turning like a hunted hare. --Dryden.
Doubling and doubling with laborious walk. --Wordsworth.
3. To play tricks; to use sleights; to play false.
What penalty and danger you accrue,
If you be found to double. --J. Webster.
4. Print. To set up a word or words a second time by mistake; to make a doublet.
To double upon Mil., to inclose between two fires.